Senior Network Security Architect

Verizon is a Fortune 500 company and prides in servicing 99% of Fortune 500 companies as well as Government Agencies around the world. In Canberra, we run a key business unit - the Government Security Operations Centre (GSOC) that supports a number of Australian Government departments.

Our operations centre is focused around collaboration and success and you will be a part of a skilled operations team managing dynamic multi-tenanted and dedicated secure gateway environments. These environments utilize a range of technologies that are underpinned by a framework that ensures security, reliability and agility for our customers. Because of these extensive environments you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies across multiple vendors including Cisco, VMware, Checkpoint, F5, McAfee, Juniper, Palo Alto, Splunk, BlueCoat and more.

We are currently seeking a Principal Security Architect to join our team. The role is within the Operations Design and Engineering group working with internal stakeholders, external parties and customers to realize the potential of the services we are engaged to provide.

The key goals for the group are:

Deliver an engaging customer experience.

Building a team focused on people development and culture.

Driving productivity and efficiencies within existing infrastructure.

Generating additional revenue for the business by enabling new customer services.

Responsibilities:

Setting direction for the business, service and product roadmaps, capacity and availability management of infrastructure.

Performing overall solution architecture for new designs and solutions across the Government SOC environments.

Assisting Sales and Pre-Sales with new business opportunities as well as working with Internal Professional Services and Project teams, creating detailed design and implementation plans and overseeing deployments.

Strong knowledge of the Australian Government Information Security Manual, along with ISO 9001/27001 standards.

Industry certifications.

Why Verizon?

As well as an attractive package, you can look forward to excellent prospects for career progression in our expanding business. We are a business that invests in its people. Verizon spends more than $275 million on employee training, development and tuition.Our work culture and drive for diversity have earned us various awards, to name a few - "Top 50 Employers list" by Equal Opportunity Magazine, "Top companies for Executive Women" by the National Association for Female Executives and Training magazine's "Hall of Fame".

At Verizon we believe in embracing the diversity of our global workforce - our employees have different interests, experiences and skills that combine to foster an innovative and enriching culture. We recognize the need to offer flexible and varied working solutions to enable our people to reach their potential and strike the right balance between personal and work life. We leverage our innovative technology and communication solutions to connect us on a global scale, enabling collaborative working. If you are interested in discussing flexible hours, mobility and alternative working solutions, talk to us; we'll do our best to accommodate you.

When you join Verizon...

You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, find your future at Verizon.